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Song: 1979
Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Album: Mellon Chollie and the Infinite Sadness
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellon_Collie_and_the_Infinite_Sadness;http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_%28song%29
Tempo: 6|8
Method: Chorus & slight reverb style
Tuning: Half-Step Down (EbAbDbGbBbeb)
Capo 2
Chords:
123456
G 320003
Dmaj7 000222
D5 XX023X
Em7 020000
A X02220
Gmaj7/E XX0002
E 244322
Bm X24432
Intro Riff:
|Dmaj7D5|
|Dmaj7D5|
Verse 1:
GDmaj7D5
Shakedown 1979,
GDmaj7D5
Cool kids never have the time.
GEm7
On a live wire right up off the street
ADmaj7D5
You and I should meet.
Verse 2:
GDmaj7D5
Junebug skipping like a stone
GDmaj7D5
With headlights pointed at the dawn.
G
We were sure we'd never see
Em7A
An end to it all.
Chorus 1:
D5Dmaj7Gmaj7/DD5
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues,
Dmaj7Gmaj7/DD5
And we don't know just where our bones will rest.
Dmaj7Gmaj7/D
To dust I guess,
Em7ADmaj7D5
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth be-low.
Riff:
|GDmaj7D5|
Verse 3:
GDmaj7D5
Double cross the vacant and the bored,
GDmaj7D5
They're not sure just what we have in store.
GEm7A
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see.
Chorus 2:
D5Dmaj7Gmaj7/DD5
We don't even care as restless as we are,
Dmaj7Gmaj7/DD5
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts.
Dmaj7Gmaj7/D
And poured cement,
A
Lamented and assured.
Bridge:
BmG
To the lights - and towns below,
ABmG
Faster than - the speed of sound.
ABmG
Faster than - we thought we'd go,
Em7ADmaj7D5
Be-neath the sound - of hope.
Verse 4:
GDmaj7D5
Justine never knew the rules,
GDmaj7D5
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls.
GDmaj7D5
No apologies ever need be made,
D5Em7A
I know better than you fake it to see.
Chorus 3:
D5Dmaj7Gmaj7/DD5
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues,
Dmaj7Gmaj7/DD5
And we don't know just where out bones will rest.
Dmaj7Gmaj7/D
To dust I guess,
Em7ADmaj7D5
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth be-low.
Coda:
GDmaj7D5
The street heats the urgency of now,
GD5
As you see there's no-one around.
[End]
Notes:
1. After many frustrated attempts in the 'Pumpkins preferred Eb tuning, this was my
approach to capture the 'spirit of the song' with simple, practical chords in an Open
Tuning. There are obviously many variants.
2. Corgan wrote "1979" as the last of approximately 56 songs for this album. He
"...considers "1979" the most personally important song on Mellon Collie."